Code Injection in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2024-29944

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Code Injection in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2024-29944

Published: March 22, 2024 / Updated: June 17, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU87736
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29944
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can send trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, inject an event handler into a privileged object and execute arbitrary JavaScript on the system within the parent process.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow remote code execution.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Oracle Linux
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Anolis OS
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
www-client/firefox
mozilla-firefox
firefox-esr (Debian package)
firefox (Red Hat package)
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource
firefox (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2024-29944

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 124.0.1
Firefox ESR - update to 115.9.1
www-client/firefox - update to 104
mozilla-firefox - update to 115.9.1esr
firefox-esr (Debian package) - addressed in versions 115.9.1esr-1~deb11u1, 115.9.1esr-1~deb12u1
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 115.9.1-1.el7_9, 115.9.1-1.el8_2, 115.9.1-1.el8_4, 115.9.1-1.el8_6, 115.9.1-1.el8_8, 115.9.1-1.el8_9, 115.9.1-1.el9_0, 115.9.1-1.el9_2, 115.9.1-1.el9_3
firefox - update to 115.9.1-1.0.1
firefox - addressed in versions 115.14.0-1, 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 115.14.0-1, 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 115.14.0-1, 128.8.0-1
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 124.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 124.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - addressed in versions 124.0.1-1.fc39, 124.0.1-1.fc40

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